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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Floyd Stephen Giebell.

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FLOYD STEPHEN GIEBELL

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 4, 1947 – October 31, 1969

Service record

Floyd Stephen Giebell, of Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 31, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16W · Line 8

Position of Panel 16W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Cannon Crewmember (13B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
February 4, 1947
Home of record
Burgettstown, Pennsylvania (Washington County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 31, 1969
Age
22
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date October 31, 1969; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16W, Line 8

Same unit, same day

From Burgettstown

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.